A Politically Correct Lynching
“Take him back in the alley and lynch him”
A comment meant to be funny that turned into a national news story. It was made by the very uncontroversial Golf Channel commentator Ms. Kelly Tilghman in what she had hoped would be a light hearted means to describe the only way most PGA tour professionals could win against the almighty Tiger Woods prior to his knee blowing a fuse.
There was no malice in her comment. As a matter of fact she and Woods have a pretty friendly relationship. Even El Tigre himself said he understood the attempted levity and took no offense. But in an effort to avoid offending those desperately looking for something to be offended by in the more liberal, politically correct and humorless minded demographic faction of the Golf Central viewership, Ms. Tilghman was publicly flogged and given a two week unpaid suspension to reflect on her insensitive comment. If Golf Central had a blackboard she probably would have been forced to publically write “Lynching isn’t funny” several hundred times on it.
The national media had a field day with her relatively innocuous comment. In an effort to capitalize on the public fray and make some quick cash the editor of Golf Week magazine decided to print a noose on the cover of their magazine. It may have increased that month’s sales but it also cost the editor his job. “There is no place for this type of thing anymore in this country”, “This dredges up all those old feelings of segregation and hate”, “Grossly irresponsible”, “This is why we are known as the ugly Americans” were just a few of the self-righteous liberal media comments made about this farce.
This past Halloween the national news reported the story of a garbage truck driver who was fired by the city he worked for because he adorned the outside mirrors of his truck with little hangman nooses as part of his spooky Halloween decorations and another of a city employee that was suspended for putting a noose up in the public works garage as part of a Halloween joke.
The noose has been given a place in infamy now equal to the Nazi swastika. Blacks are repulsed by it because of its historic impact and whites are repulsed by it because they feel they need to show sensitivity to anything that upsets anybody.
That is why it came as such a shock to see it on E Bay. Not only a noose, but a noose hanging an effigy of an historic political figure. This display was being sold on E Bay after having adorned the house of the owner this past Halloween. The noosed effigy was not displayed in front of some run down doublewide trailer located in the backwoods hills of Dixie. No, it was prominently displayed amongst the upper-class homes in the gilded hills of West Hollywood, California.
There were no cries of outrage, no pickets, no NAACP rally held outside the yard. No Jesse, no Al, no Rainbow Coalition. Nope. Actually it probably would have gone completely unnoticed nationally had not the owner tried to sell the thing on E Bay.
Why no indignation at this display? Why would E Bay allow it to be displayed and sold on their site? Well it’s simple. The historic political figure being hung in effigy was not that of the first black president. It was of the first female vice president candidate for the Republican Party, Sarah Palin. And apparently that’s OK.
The news story that came out was not that this display had been in the owner’s yard or even that it was being sold on E Bay. The story hit the wires because the person who bought the effigy thought it was a tribute to Palin, and when he discovered it was in fact the lynching of Palin he backed out of the deal.
I wonder what would happen is someone put an effigy of Barack Hussein Obama in front of their house. Or even one that was supposed to look like Joe Biden. Any guesses? This lynching of Sarah Palin didn’t raise enough eyebrows to even cause a wrinkle in the well Botoxed foreheads of the residents in this West Hollywood neighborhood. The hypocrisy is almost a stunning as the self-righteousness.
The owner named Chad Michael Morrisette is a professional window dresser and is looking to garner around $2,200.00 for the Sarah Palin mannequin dressed in a red coat, wig and glasses.
I personally hope Mr. Morrisette gets a hundred times that amount.
And spends it all on medicine.
